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First off, I want to thank everyone that came out to the Las Vegas Open this year. You are a great group of gamers to have. I look forward to seeing you next year and at other events where I won't have to play Overlord! A special thanks to all the volunteers that helped out over the weekend, you guys make events like this possible.

I have received a lot of good feedback over the weekend and after the event. People seemed to be having a ton of fun and events ran smoothly on the play and admin sides too. There are always things to improve, and I have a list for next year going already!

LVO Report:

This year I decided to pack the truck early so I would not have to try and figure out how to pack a con's worth of terrain, supplies, and four other gamers (with their stuff) into my truck the morning I needed to leave. So Wednesday I spent a good part of the day packing, then taking everything out, then packing again to make sure everything would actually fit in the truck. Thursday morning the people that were driving with me showed up. We finished packing their stuff in the truck and set out to Vegas. A short seven hour drive later we arrived. Due to a variety of things we were not able to start setting up 'til 9pm with the help of my locals that traveled with me. Thanks guys! We called it good enough at midnight, and I would finish in the morning.

Friday morning rolled around, and I arose quite early to make sure everything was set up for the festivities to come. And oh boy were there a lot of you!

The first event of the weekend was the Team Tournament. This year we used the WTC style of pairings. It looked to go pretty smoothly from where I was. I would be interested in specific feedback on whether you guys liked it or not. That evening was the Mangled Metal Tournament which thankfully I had someone else to run so I could get some sleep.

Saturday would be the largest of the tournaments we held that weekend so I was up early again to make sure everything was in order. Start time rolled around and off we went. A mere 14 hours later and we had a winner! (Standings, pictures, and lists will be posted below). Again, thankfully I had someone to run the Tier Tournament that night, so back to bed I went after some clean up and prep work for the morning's Masters.

Sunday was Masters and Who's the Boss with them just slightly offset to get Masters going before Who's the Boss started.

I was able to play some games in Who's the Boss between doing other duties. Thank you guys for those games! They were the only two I played all weekend. It is nice to get my CoC out.

The Winner of the Masters events was Ryan Chiriboga with all the cool trophies, the WMW invitational ticket, and a $500 travel voucher to WMW from LVO/Frontline Gaming!

I also want to thank all the great vendors that provided prize support. We gave out quite a pile of prizes over the weekend. I look forward to seeing everyone next year and out on the circuits!

-Tyson Koch (pg_Menelker)

You can view videos from the weekend at the Vegas Vanguards YouTube Channel. Thank you for doing all that work Peter Lipphardt! Remember to please be respectful to the players in the videos as they agreed to be recorded for your enjoyment so we can keep doing this in the future.

I picked up an Epic Borka for Hordes Troolbloods while at L&L this year. He is currently pained and up on ebay. Get him while you can as the model will probably not be released until Oct/Nov this year.